What's New on ORB

July 2002

Encyclopedia:
Religion: Judaism now includes a link to The interdisciplinary seminar on the
Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism,
the internet version of an ongoing research seminar of graduate students at the department of theology of Marquette University (Milwaukee, USA). The seminar is directed by Alexander Golitzin, a professor of eastern Christian theology (Marquette University). The seminar started in March 2002 as an attempt to investigate Jewish mystical traditions in the eastern Christian theological and liturgical texts.

Apocalyptic Ideas in Old English
Literature, by Carolin Esser. Deals with manifestations of theological and poetic explorations of the apocalypse in Latin and Old English sources. Includes a rich body of contextual material.

Medieval
English Towns: Has added a link to a Biographical
Master List, a central reference to the more substantive of the biographical sketches of medieval townspeople dispersed across various of the Medieval English Towns pages.

Culture: Literature

The Gesta
Francor, ed. & trans. by Leslie Morgan, has a rewritten
introduction and updated links.